Appear Quotes

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it.

I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.